Well, NoVeeam has introduced “Veeam Montior 5.0 Beta” in this week which comes with new features, enhancements and dashboard as some of them are listed below: Support for vSphere 4.1 In addition to local and fibre channel/iSCSI storage, NFS storages are now can be monitored. Storage paths and storage adapters including load balancing status *, […]
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VCAP4-DCD PF (Progress Form)
Hi, Well, first of all thanks to Jon Hall and Andre M for their time, consideration and helps. In first place as I’m working toward VCAP4-DCD Certification and as long as it’s blueprint out from VMware, I’ve created a simple spreadsheet for checking my learning/studying progress, as I’m always doing this for all of my […]
TSM and SSH on ESXi 4.1
I’ve installed the VMware ESXi 4.1 on my home lab for learning purpose. Today I decided to enable SSH on ESXi 4.1 for further use and also check the TSM (Tech Support Mode) on ESXi 4.1 in order to checking the different area on the ESXi itself. So as usual I pressed the ALT+F1 and […]
Running VMware ESXi 4.1 on VMware ESXi 4.0
It seem there’s some problem on installing VMware ESXi 4.1 on the ESXi 4.0 (which mentioned by “Eric Gray” on his site “vCritical” as an UPDATE for his article) and the underlying platform should be ESXi 4.1. I have problem on installing it directly on the ESXi 4.0, but there’s always a way to reach […]
Running two VMware ESXi 4.1 on only 2GB RAM
Hi, During my testing VMware ESXi 4.1 which is the last version currently, I’ve installed it on two VM on my VMware Workstation 7.1 which supporting ESX 4.0 as guest OS. The system I’m used on my working place have Intel E5300 CPU, 2GB DDR2 Memory and running Windows XP SP3. There are some good […]
VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat
Finally I had chance and time to install and test the “VMware Heartbeat” which I had learnt to install, configure and use during one of my course. There’s some note about this software which I think they may be good to mention as may be they come useful in latter exams 😉 You need at […]
vCenter alarms and sending emails
Hi everyone I’m writing this note just for whom need to get familiar and need help on configuring vCenter alarm to use email. It would be useful for admins and support team to get the latest news on their email, so let start.
VMware Workstation 7.1 and Hyper-V on the Windows Server 2008 R2
Some days ago, I get one HP DL380 G5 server from one of my friends in project which we all working on it (he is our project manager), so I can install and test Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 edition as well as new feature in Hyper-V. I had installed and worked a little with […]
VMware Fusion Virtual Network Configuration
Hi, Today I’ve installed four VMs on VMware Fusion 3 and configured their network address in 192.168.1.0/24 range and start to ping all of them but no luck. So I checked the network configuration of system and noticed that vmnet1 and vmnet8 are configured randomly with 172.16.0.0 and 192.168.130.0 range.
Microsoft Windows Server Time Problem
This is the another listen learn from my project in data center as well as reminder for myself. After few months of installation and configuring all systems and servers, the times on Microsoft windows servers changed and there’s 1-hour missed. All system configured to get their time config from NTP server in data center, all […]